Improvement in frames for exhibiting dress-goods



L. H. SPRINGER.

FRAMES FOR EXHIBITIITG DRESS-GOODS. No.17 6,559. Patented April 25,1876.

WITNESSES INVENTDB UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS H. SPRINGER, OF CLAREMONT, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRAMES FOR EXHIBITING DRESS-GOODS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,559, dated April525, 1876; application filed February 5, 1876.

To all whom (it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEwIs H. SPRINGER, of Olaremont, Dodge county,Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Frame for ExhibitingDress-Goods, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a side elevation; Fig. 2, a top view of my improvedframe or support for exhibiting dress-goods; and Fig. 3 is a detail sideview of the cross-beam with curved ends.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to provide for stores an improved frame orsupport for showing dress-goods of all kinds to the best advantage tocustomers, in connection with the fringes, trimmings, laces, &c., suitedthereto; and the invention consists of a base-socket with upright rod orstandard, carrying a curved cross-beam with bent-up ends.

In the drawing, Arepresents a suitable base part, to which the uprightstandard or rod B is securely socketed. The upper end of the standard Bcarries a curved cross-beam, O, which is set at any suitable angle tothe standard tobest imitate the human form and exhibit the goods placedthereon to best advantage. The cross-beam C is provided at the outerends with upward-bent hooks D, that serve to hang up the trimmings,850., alongside the goods, to give the best cfi'cct to customers of thefitting of the same to the goods exposed.

The exhibiting-frame is intended to be moved on the counter,,and to bemoved to any part thereof, so as to shade and expose the goods to thebest possible advantage. It will enable the salesman to exhibit variousgoods side by side, and form, on account of its usefulness, a convenientand necessary article of dry-goods and other stores.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination,with a cross-bar, C, having outer hooks D, of an upright, B, arranged inthe socket of the movable base A, as and for the purpose specified.

LEWIS H. SPRINGER.

Witnesses:

M. W. ARRIES, PHIL. H. SPRINGER.

